Kyocera Named 2015 Top 100 Global Innovator by Thomson Reuters

Kyocera
Corporation President: Goro Yamaguchi, announced that Kyocera was
recognized as one of the 2015
Top 100 Global Innovators by Thomson Reuters,
a worldwide provider of intelligent information for business
enterprises and professionals, for the second consecutive year.
Kyocera was highly recognized for its patent success rate and global
reach; a trophy was presented at the company's headquarters in
Kyoto, Japan.

Junichi Jinno,
General Manager of Corporate Legal and Intellectual Property Group
at Kyocera (left) receiving the trophy from Mr. Hirofumi Hino,
Vice President and Head of Japan Professional Services IP &
Science, at Thomson Reuters (right)

The
Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators awards have been presented
annually since 2011 to recognize organizations at the center of
global innovation by analyzing their developments in intellectual
property and patents based on Thomson Reuters' data and original
methodology.

The basic policy of the Kyocera Group is to
safeguard the yields of research and development as intellectual
property rights and to respect the intellectual property rights of
others. Kyocera's activities relating to intellectual property
resulted in a high success rate. In addition, Kyocera emphasizes
foreign patents since its business is expanding globally. The company
holds a Global Intellectual Property Partners Meeting, which is a
joint gathering for patent offices in the U.S., Europe, China, Korea,
Japan and the Group's staff in charge of intellectual property, to
discuss various topics about intellectual property including patent
application specifications and specific case examples. Currently, the
company has two overseas branches for intellectual property in the
U.S. and China and will open a new branch in Europe in April
2016.

"We are grateful to be named a 2015 Top 100 Global
Innovator for the second consecutive year, which is in part due to
the consistent support of our patent & law firms and each of our
product divisions," said Junichi Jinno, Senior Executive Officer
and General Manager of Corporate Legal and Intellectual Property
Group. "Innovation continues to be a vital company asset and these
influential patents are important to protect further global business
development."

About the Thomson Reuters 2015 Top 100
Global Innovators

Research and analysis were performed
utilizing Thomson Reuters Derwent World Patents Index®
(DWPISM), Derwent Patents Citation Index® and
Thomson Innovation®, a premier IP intelligence and
collaboration platform. The methodology to identify the Top 100
Global Innovators included four principal criteria.

1.
VolumeAll organizations with 100 or more patented new
inventions in the past five years are included in the analysis.

2.
Success rate The analysis measures the ratio of inventions
described in published applications (those patents which are filed
and publicly published by the patent office but not yet granted) to
inventions protected with granted patents in the past five years.

3.
Global reachThe global reach of inventions is analyzed by
calculating the number of basic inventions that have quadrilateral
patents in their patent families in China, Europe, Japan and the
United States.

4. InfluenceThe number of citations
to the organization's patents by other companies is counted over
the most recent five years, excluding self citations.